This is a picture of squirrel tracks at Stone Valley in Colton, NY. There were a lot of squirrel as well as porcupine tracks while we were walking along the snowy trail. When squirrels are frightened they will run back and forth to confused predators. Based on the tracks in this picture it doesn't look like the squirrel was being threatened or was in any rush. I think this photo is interesting because of the way the thin branch highlights the squirrel's path.

This image is of a Gray Squirrel track, I saw this white cross country skiing in Stone Valley. I like this image because since enrolling at st. Lawrence I have become fond of the Gray Squirrel since there are so many living on campus. This squirrel can be identified as the Eastern Gray Squirrel because of the region that it is in. It can be described as a scatter-hoarder as it hoards food in many different caches for later recovery. It is believed that these squirrels make up 1,000 caches each season but are able to remember all of the locations due to their accurate spatial memory.

CLOSE UP 2: This was another picture of the perfect, wet, snowball snow at Lampson Falls. This was taken in the wooded area on the path to the actual falls. I liked how precariously this snowball was balancing on this tall stump. It reminded me of Andy Goldsworthy's work creating beautiful, impossible sculptures out of natural materials.

CLOSE UP: This picture was taken on our class trip to Lampson Falls. We went there to do some tracking, but there wasn't any fresh snow so it was a little bit difficult. There were a lot of signs of porcupines - though we didn't see one. We learned that the primary (land) predator of a porcupine is a fisher which goes for the part of the porcupine without quills (its face). Because there was no fresh snow and it had rained earlier in the week, this mini snowman was still in perfect form though it looks like the rain took away part of it.

This photo was taken during my lab; for this lab we hiked along the Red Sand Stone trail until we reached the Grasse River. The Grasse river is 73 miles long and it is named after Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse, a French admiral who assisted American forces during the Battle of Yorktown in the Revolutionary War. The river was made up by a series of small lakes and ponds in the towns of Russel, Clifton and Clare. The Grasse river is part of what is known as the Greater St. Lawrence River Drainage Basin.

In this picture it is very easy to tell that this is a Red Squirrel print because you can clearly see all of its toes. Also it is kind of scampering like squirrels do.

This picture was taken on St. Lawrence University campus outside of Jenks Hall and it is simply breath taking. The sunset and sunrises in the North Country are wonderful and this is just one example of that. I like the parallel clouds in this picture and the colors.

This photo depicts a very interesting phenomenon. I am not really sure how this happens but I thought it was really cool. This snow is on top of a maple tree. Xylem are dead cells that transport water due to the stickiness of water. Phloem transports sugar around the tree and allows the tree to grow.

I made this thing and I thought it was really cool. It reminds me of Andy Goldsworthy.

This picture shows red squirrel tracks going up a tree. Red squirrels are found much more in the wild than the regular Canton city squirrels. This picture is difficult to tell that it is a red squirrel but when we got close to it we could see the individual toes which is indicative of a red squirrel and since we did not see any dragging we know that it was not a porcupine.